School: Fadhbach, Caisleán na Mainge (roll number 10016)
- Location:
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Tíodhcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0432, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)mountain towards Catair Consai he met a man who was riding on a horse.
This man carried a bag with something heavy in it. The bag fell off and the man was not able to put it up.
Oisin jumped off and in one swing he had it on the horse's back. No sooner was the bag up when Oisin began to get old and in ten minutes he was an old and wrinkled man.
He was taken to St. Patrick. When St Patrick was teaching him the true God he told Oisin that God was as strong as the whole world put together.
Oisin said that if he saw God and his own son Oscar in a fight hand to hand and if Oscar fell he would then believe that God was a strong man.
After a long time he consented and when St Patrick was baptising him he stuck his staff in the ground at the same time giving it to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Foley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanahill, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jeremiah D. Foley
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Shanahill, Co. Kerry
